--- description: The president's approval rating, Gallup's daily tracking poll finds, fell to 36% — lower than most other presidents ever fell title: President Trump's Approval Rating Just Dropped to an All-Time Low image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10961afba150bba3/6988c0117cdbac0518d579f2/gettyimages-658393652.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [White House](/tag/white-house/) ## White House Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # President Trump's Approval Rating Just Dropped to an All-Time Low by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 27, 2017 6:23 PM CUT  U.S. President Donald Trump listens while meeting with women small business owners in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 27, 2017\. Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump listens while meeting with women small business owners in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 27, 2017\. Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg/Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 27, 2017 6:23 PM CUT President Donald Trump’s [approval rating fell to 36%](http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/207416/trump-approval-rating-drops-new-low.aspx?g%5Fsource=Polling+Matters&g%5Fmedium=lead&g%5Fcampaign=tiles "undefined") Monday after House Republicans failed to pass their repeal of the Affordable Care Act, marking a new low for the president’s young tenure. Before March 24, when the House [pulled the scheduled vote on the American Health Care Act](http://time.com/4712852/ahca-donald-trump-obamacare-repeal-failure/ "undefined"), the president’s approval rating was trending upward. Some 41% of Americans told Gallup they approved of Trump’s performance in their daily tracking poll. Just a week prior, the president’s approval rating had [dipped to 37%](http://fortune.com/2017/03/20/president-trumps-approval-rating-just-hit-a-new-low/ "undefined"). With the new rating, [Gallup reports](http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/207416/trump-approval-rating-drops-new-low.aspx?g%5Fsource=Polling+Matters&g%5Fmedium=lead&g%5Fcampaign=tiles "undefined"), Trump has dipped below the all-time lows of Presidents Obama (lowest: 38%), Clinton (lowest: 37%), and Ford (lowest: 37%). Trump has yet to reach the same lows of some presidents, including President George W. Bush who saw his approval rating dip to 25% and President Richard Nixon, who at one point had the approval of just 24% of the American public. Luckily for Trump, daily tracking polls aren’t the end-all-be-all for presidential support, but he was already at a deficit when he took office. At the time of the inauguration, Trump had the [lowest approval rating](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-donald-trump-approval-rating-20170117-story.html "undefined") of any new president in recent history. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4714174/donald-trump-gallup-approval-rating-36-percent/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4714174/donald-trump-gallup-approval-rating-36-percent/"},"headline":"President Trump's Approval Rating Just Dropped to an All-Time Low","datePublished":"2017-03-27T18:23:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:03:29.191Z","description":"The president's approval rating, Gallup's daily tracking poll finds, fell to 36%","url":"https://time.com/4714174/donald-trump-gallup-approval-rating-36-percent/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10961afba150bba3/6988c0117cdbac0518d579f2/gettyimages-658393652.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10961afba150bba3/6988c0117cdbac0518d579f2/gettyimages-658393652.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Participates In Roundtable With Women Small Business Owners","caption":"President Trump Participates In Roundtable With Women Small Business Owners","creditText":"Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4714174/donald-trump-gallup-approval-rating-36-percent/","name":"President Trump's Approval Rating Just Dropped to an All-Time Low"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trump: It's the Democrats' Fault the Health Care Bill Failed","description":"President Donald Trump blamed Democrats on Friday for the failure of the GOP health care bill that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ySPMTcST/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-03-24T21:27:07.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ySPMTcST.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4714174/donald-trump-gallup-approval-rating-36-percent/","duration":"PT1M44S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4714174/donald-trump-gallup-approval-rating-36-percent/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```